Our Team
Nicole Vitale
Yoga Teacher
Nicole has been teaching yoga since 2010 and is passionate about creating an inclusive space for everyone. She believes yoga is for every body and every mind—regardless of experience, age, or ability. What she finds most beautiful about the practice is its ability to evolve and meet you exactly where you are, physically and mentally, throughout life.
Her teaching is grounded in evidence-based practices, combining the well-known physical benefits of yoga with its equally powerful mental and emotional effects. As a dedicated advocate for mental health, Nicole’s mission is to help students develop a yoga practice that supports well-being beyond the mat.
Serena Roschman, MS, E-RYT 500
Owner & Founder
Chronic pain and illness first brought me to contemplative practice two decades ago. With the help of a committed practice, I developed a more loving and understanding relationship with my body and mind, ultimately allowing healing, balancing, and strengthening to occur over time. In 2023, when Long Covid and ME/CFS left me disabled, I returned to these practices and to teaching with a new perspective — and a deep desire to explore how they can support others living with energy-limiting conditions.
I have studied yoga and several traditions of meditation for two decades with some of the most renowned teachers throughout the world. My teaching is primarily informed by my studies with Christopher Wallis, Gary Kraftsow, Leslie Kaminoff, Sally Kempton, and Pema Chödrön. I consider myself a lifelong student of yoga and continue to train extensively to keep my classes intelligent, fresh, and inspired. I have completed rigorous advanced teacher training in Viniyoga with Gary Kraftsow, and I have taught in studios, boardrooms, retreat centers, and one-on-one settings.
In 2015 I cofounded Room to Breathe, a public yoga studio integrated with a collaborative psychotherapy practice in downtown Chicago. There, I collaborated with therapists and healthcare professionals to make research-based, trauma-sensitive programming accessible to all. Through Room to Breathe, I designed and taught an intensive 9-month psychologically sensitive yoga teacher training program, as well as a 65-hour continuing education program for practicing teachers.
I hold a master's degree in health communication from Northwestern University, where I studied how mindfulness and yoga can be effectively integrated into the US healthcare system.
Today I teach primarily online, with a deep focus on serving people with energy-limiting conditions such as ME/CFS, Long Covid, and chronic pain. I am also the maker behind Woven by Serena, a small jewelry business offering handcrafted mālā necklaces and gemstone bracelets designed for mindfulness and grounding — many made specifically with the chronic illness community in mind.
I write honestly about all of it — the practice, the illness, the slow work of rebuilding — on my Substack, Serena Disappoints You.
Renee Zambo, C-IAYT
Yoga Therapist
Renee is a certified yoga therapist and has worked as the Academic Coordinator for the Kripalu School of Integrative Yoga Therapy. Her teaching weaves together breathwork, mudra, gentle postures, intention setting, and meditation—supporting health and wellbeing on physical, energetic, and emotional levels. With deep experience in yoga for back care, joint health, trauma sensitivity, and more, she brings both wisdom and compassion to every class.
When she’s not teaching, Renee enjoys bike rides and hikes in the Dunes of Harbor Country and the Berkshire Mountains.
Adam Grossi
Yoga Teacher
Adam's passion for yoga emerges from his experience of being deeply calmed, healed, and transformed by its techniques and philosophy over the course of his adult life. Adam teaches practices which weave physical sensation, mental focus, and poetic imagination into a tapestry capable of support, healing, and transformation. His intent is to create space for students to find their true teacher, the one that already exists within themselves.
Adam currently studies with Yoli Maya Yeh, Portia Richardson, and Elesa Commerse. He is grateful for the decade he spent studying with Jim Bennitt and James Tennant, and continues to glean wisdom from Richard Freeman.
When not on the mat, Adam maintains a rigorous creative practice in painting, drawing, and writing. The third edition of his book Wind Through Quiet Tensions, a memoir about his experiences with mental health and the therapeutic potential of yoga, was published by For the Birds Trapped in Airports in 2026. As a teacher Adam’s intention is for students to walk out the door with increased energy, focus, and inspiration for whatever challenges life might hold for them. Learn more at http://adamgrossi.com